RE: Dash It All! -- Lines in FM

["Pinkham, Jim" <Jim -dot- Pinkham -at- voith -dot- com>]

Thanks, Richard -- Guesses much appreciated at this point :) Also, great
idea on checking type in the Object Properties. I think part of my issue
may be tied to funky grouping of objects.

Jim  

-----Original Message-----
From: Combs, Richard [mailto:richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 4:00 PM
To: Pinkham, Jim; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Subject: RE: Dash It All! -- Lines in FM

Pinkham, Jim wrote: 
  
> I'm running FM 7.1 and futzing helplessly with some rectangles that 
> have dashed lines that I wish to convert to solid lines. <snip>
> 
> For example, when I select the rectangle, set fill to none, line width

> to 0.2, I get a solid red line. When I change the color to black, it 
> becomes dashed again. When I set the pen to solid, the lines look 
> solid in FM, but print as dashed in the PDF.

Can't help with this part -- probably not understanding it. 
 
> When I set the pen to none, I see all my dashed lines in FM, but no 
> amount of tinkering appears able to make them solid again. When I 
> choose solid on the Set Dashed Line Pattern button on the graphics 
> toolbar, the rectangle remains dashed.
> Same thing when I choose the Make Line Solid button at the top of my 
> screen (the one with the checkmark on top of the solid line).

For this part, I can take a guess. I suspect you're not dealing with
rectangles, but with frames (graphics or text). When you set pen to
None, you're telling FM you don't want a border at all. But if View >
Borders is selected, and the object is a frame, FM shows the frame
border as a dotted line -- it's screen display only, like text symbols,
it doesn't print. It's just for your convenience in sizing and placing
the frame. 

Right-click the object, select Object Properties, and see if Type is
Rectangle or maybe Graphic Frame. Or turn off View > Borders and see if
the dotted line disappears. 

HTH!
Richard 


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Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
richardDOTcombs AT polycomDOTcom
303-223-5111
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rgcombs AT gmailDOTcom
303-777-0436
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